Undergraduate Course: Market Structure, Conduct and Performance (BUST10008)
Course Outline
| School | Business School | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 20 | 
 
| Home subject area | Business Studies | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
http://www.bus.ed.ac.uk/programmes/ugpc.html | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description |  &· Strategic Behaviour Concerning Choices of Price and 
    Output in Oligopolies  
&·  Price and Output Coordination in Practice  
&·  Limit Pricing and Strategic Entry Deterrence  
&·  Determinants of the Structure of Markets: Strategic  
    Behaviour, Economies of Scale, Chance  
&·  Causes and Effects of Acquisitions and Mergers  
&·  Empirical Studies Relating Market Structure to  
    Economic Performance  
&·  Strategic Choices Concerning the Amount and Speed of R&D 
    Activity in Different Market Structures  
 
 
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Business Studies/Management courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. 
 
 
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| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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WebCT enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
		| Location | 
		Activity | 
		Description | 
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		Tuesday | 
		Wednesday | 
		Thursday | 
		Friday | 
	 
| Central | Lecture |  | 1-5 & 7-11 |  |  |  |  09:00 - 10:50 |  |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) |  | 2:00 |  |  |  
 
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1) 
  
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WebCT enabled:  No | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
		| Location | 
		Activity | 
		Description | 
		Weeks | 
		Monday | 
		Tuesday | 
		Wednesday | 
		Thursday | 
		Friday | 
	 
| Central | Lecture |  | 1-5 & 7-11 |  |  |  |  09:00 - 10:50 |  |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
| No Exam Information | 
 
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
| Welfare economics of Monopoly and Competition. Determinants of market structure. Oligopolistic coordination. Structure-performance relationships. Market power and technological change. Certain economic aspects of advertising. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
Continuous assessment - one essay (approx 2000 words) 30% 
Final exam 70% 
Visiting Student Variant Assessment 
Two 3000 word essays (50% each) for visiting students. |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Keywords | MSCP | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Jonathan Crook 
Tel: (0131 6)50 3802 
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Course secretary | Ms Patricia Ward-Scaltsas 
Tel: (0131 6)50 3823 
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